Mother And Child (F. & S. II.383)
Mother And Child (F. & S. II.383)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 250
Year: 1986
Size: H 91cm x W 91cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Christie's London | United Kingdom | |||
| February 2023 | Forum Auctions London | United Kingdom | |||
| June 2022 | Bonhams New Bond Street | United Kingdom | |||
| June 2021 | Van Ham Fine Art Auctions | Germany | |||
| July 2020 | Phillips New York | United States | |||
| November 2019 | Bonhams New York | United States | |||
| December 2018 | Sotheby's New York | United States |
Meaning & Analysis
Printed in 1986, Mother And Child (F. & S. II.383) is a signed screen print on Lenox Museum Board by Andy Warhol that depicts a Native American woman carrying her son on her back. The woman stares into the distance while her son is sleeping, resting his head on her shoulders. The two figures are wrapped in textiles rendered in rich green and red and Warhol uses yellow and blue hand-drawn lines to contour the image and add to the texture of the fabric. The gestural lines delineate the figures and the bold colours contrast against the white backdrop.
Mother And Child (F. & S. II.383) belongs to the Cowboys And Indians series, composed of ten graphic screen prints. This print exemplifies how Warhol takes archetypal figures of the American West to convey the distorted and romanticised vision of Native America obtained through images in popular culture, such as Western films. Warhol takes this a step further by turning this image of a Native American woman into a Pop Art icon.
The print was made using Warhol's signature screen printing technique. This method is known for its capacity to mass-produce imagery to be widely distributed. By removing the image's original background and distorting the image through the use of bright, unconventional colours, Warhol abstracts the image from its historical context and reduces an entire heritage and culture into a single symbolic image. With Mother And Child (F. & S. II.383), Warhol makes a political comment on the way in which mass-produced imagery in popular culture can alter and even erase our understanding of a particular history.
Andy Warhol was a leading figure of the Pop Art movement and is often considered the father of Pop Art. Born in 1928, Warhol allowed cultural references of the 20th century to drive his work. From the depiction of glamorous public figures, such as Marilyn Monroe, to the everyday Campbell’s Soup Can, the artist challenged what was considered art by blurring the boundaries between high art and mass consumerism. Warhol's preferred screen printing technique further reiterated his obsession with mass culture, enabling art to be seen as somewhat of a commodity through the reproduced images in multiple colour ways.
